There are many reasons to go to church, most importantly to
give God his glory. But every now and then, you hear things, you learn things
that have an impact on your life. Today was one of them.
A Morrison Bible fellowship friend, Gary Baldwin quoted a past pastor by the Name of Mark Corts, former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church who said, “I challenge
you to say “No” to something at least once a day”. Later in the afternoon, I began
to think about that profound idea. We live in a luxurious society where “yes”
is preached to us constantly. “Yes” you need a better car, “yes” you need a
larger house, “yes” you need those designer clothes, “yes” you need the iPhone
X (guilty, kind of, I have the 8). All of those things are good, but so often
we turn good things into bad things. Just look at our waist lines.
“Yes” is
certainly important as I’m glad my wife said it to me many years ago. But think
about the times we said “Yes” in our life and the consequences that followed
them. Consider the internal moments we’ve wanted to fight with our spouse, and
the moment we said “Yes. I’m going to
release those angry words” ….if only we’d said “No”. I thought about the many
times I have said “Yes” when I should have said “No’. It made me think of the trajectory
that the word “Yes” has the ability to make. Simple decisions that five years
down the road you wish you’d said “No”.
It’s all about self discipline!
The Exercise of saying “No” is something I’m going to consciously
attempt to reflect on this week. If nothing else, the practice will at least
make me stand at the cross road of decision and make a slow wise choice. Who knows, I might even lose 10 pounds.
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